{"id":30,"date":"2019-04-09T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T19:37:40","slug":"some-v-any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/definitions\/some-v-any\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Some<\/em> vs. <em>Any<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Any<\/em> and <em>some<\/em> can be synonymous; that is, they may have the same meaning. Both may be used in affirmative or negative questions:<br \/>\n<strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Will you have <\/em>any<em>?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Will you have <\/em>some<em>?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Won&#8217;t you have <\/em>any<em>?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Won&#8217;t you have <\/em>some<em>?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Generally, it is better to use <em>some<\/em>, not <em>any<\/em>, for affirmative statements and answers.<br \/>\n<strong>Correct:<\/strong> <em>You may have <\/em>some<em>. Yes, I&#8217;d like <\/em>some<em>.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Incorrect:<\/strong> <em>You may have <\/em>any<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For negative statements and answers, it usually makes more sense to use <em>any<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>I don&#8217;t want <\/em>any<em> trouble.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I can&#8217;t have <\/em>any<em> pets in my apartment.<\/em><br \/>\nAwkward: <em>I can\u2019t have <\/em>some<em> pets in my apartment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note that it would be fine to leave out <em>any<\/em> in the above examples entirely.<br \/>\n<strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>I don\u2019t want trouble.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I can\u2019t have pets in my apartment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Make sure you don\u2019t use <em>no<\/em> when you mean <em>any<\/em> or you will have what is called a double negative.<br \/>\n<strong>Incorrect:<\/strong> <em>I don\u2019t want no apple pie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\nWhich of the following sentences are correct?<\/p>\n<p>1. Would you like some ice cream with your chocolate cake?<br \/>\n2. Would you like any ice cream with your chocolate cake?<br \/>\n3. I would like any ice cream with my chocolate cake.<br \/>\n4. I don\u2019t care for some ice cream with my chocolate cake.<br \/>\n5. I don\u2019t care for ice cream with my chocolate cake.<br \/>\n6. I don\u2019t care for any ice cream with my chocolate cake.<br \/>\n7. I don\u2019t want no ice cream with my chocolate cake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Correct<br \/>\n2. Correct<br \/>\n3. Incorrect<br \/>\n4. <em>I don\u2019t care for any ice cream<\/em> would be better.<br \/>\n5. Correct<br \/>\n6. Correct<br \/>\n7. Incorrect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any and some can be synonymous; that is, they may have the same meaning. Both may be used in affirmative or negative questions: Examples: Will you have any? Will you have some? Won&#8217;t you have any? Won&#8217;t you have some? Generally, it is better to use some, not any, for affirmative statements and answers. Correct: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives-adverbs","category-definitions"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}